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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc.
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To: Mang Cheng who wrote (1617)9/9/2000 10:18:18 AM
From: TechieGuy-alt  Read Replies (1) of 6784
 
WLD, I looked very carefully at the cell phone screens and I can't convince myself that they are LCD screens. LCD screens are those liquid-dy screens that you can depress with your fingers
and it flows like liquid. LCD screens can actually function the same way as a computer CRT terminal in the sense they are made up of some tiny dots and you can program the lcd screen to
display any graphics you want - text is just one type of graphics.

But a phone screen text displaying lines are fixed and you can't display graphics on a normal phone screen. That's one reason why it's extremly difficult for cell-phone to imitate Palm since it's
just not capable of displaying anything other than the few line of texts. Whereas Palm can imitate a cell phone screen without any effort.

That's why Symbian wants to use the Palm interface (the LCD programmable display) to lay on top of the text-based Epoc OS and issues commands to run the cell-phone.

I am no expert in these areas so any discussion is welcome. Maybe I could be totally wrong.


Most (that I have seen) cellphone displays are LCD's. IT doesn't matter if the the screen can display graphics or not. That is an issue of the LCD being "dot-matrix" type or not.
Only the old Motorola screen were non LCD, and it was quite obvious, the numbers were luminiscent.

BTW, the fact that you can touch and scribble on the PAlm displays is NOT a function of the LCD screen, rather a digitizer overlay on the screen.

Don't let (varied) functionality fool you into thinking a type of technology is something else.

TG
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